01-20-2020, 02:31 PM
Compromise works only when both sides see the conflict as complete victory and complete defeat, and when both sides have some common interests. Punitive attitudes toward the other side as the Enemy deserving only of ruin ensure that there will be no compromise.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.